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arneb

"I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold"

Jun 24, 2007 11:11

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enigmagique June 25 2007, 04:56:45 UTC

Okay, when you say 3D/4D imaging I'm assuming you mean time.

A picture of your baby in your uterus taken with the fourth spatial dimension would be kind of crazy. Baby tesseract, baby length x = (p, q, r, s). Whoa.

arneb June 25 2007, 11:53:01 UTC

Yeah... Jenny and I were both stumped on this one. She looked it up for me and basically it's what they call the 3D when it's in motion. Even though... it's not 4D. *shrugs* I think they just want to sound fancy. But that's what they call it everywhere... even the UK, so... ?

good questions honestefforts June 25 2007, 18:24:12 UTC

I don’t like the idea of a government regulating names at all. However I think it is possible for some names to qualify as child abuse in the same way that allowing a ten year old to way 300 pounds is child abuse. A parent may name their child something white power oriented in hopes that child will be a follow of that belief and the child has a fifty-fifty chances of rebelling against those ideas or following, but before the child gets old enough to decide, I believe they would suffer socially and be exposed to extremely hostile situations before they can even comprehend what their name means. So yeah I guess I do think it can hurt the child’s social development and personality development if the name is absurd in the eyes of the modern masses. Still, I don’t think I’d like the government making a list of what we can and can not use. It’d probably be more practical for a reported case to be investigated by social workers and they can determine if the child is in an abusive house hold.

Re: good questions arneb June 25 2007, 20:15:45 UTC

I agree. I'm pretty sure that's what's going on with the New Zealand case.
I hope in the end that they allow them to. 4Real is a horrible name, but I don't think it classifies as abusive. Either way the kid will be known as "Real". And what a conversation starter...

"Name?"
"4real."
"How's that spelled?"
"4-R-E-A-L."

They have to redo standardized testing forms too. I'm sure that's why they are putting up such a fuss. And what happens when symbols enter names?

Re: good questions honestefforts June 26 2007, 09:07:31 UTC

I guess Prince was ahead of his time

Re: good questions arneb June 26 2007, 12:24:28 UTC

So true.
But also pretty frightning to consider Prince as futuristic.